Comments on: Quora Co-Founders Share Numbers, the Secret to Surviving the Hype Cyclehttp://pando.com/2012/04/23/quora-co-founders-share-numbers-the-secret-of-surviving-the-hype-cycle/
speaking truth to the new powerTue, 31 Mar 2015 20:25:40 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: SlicingThePiehttp://pando.com/2012/04/23/quora-co-founders-share-numbers-the-secret-of-surviving-the-hype-cycle/#comment-33427
Thu, 04 Oct 2012 07:58:10 +0000http://pandodaily.com/?p=14089#comment-33427We need a simple model to help us properly slice the pie. It needs to be flexible and fair. By fair I mean it needs to give each founder what they deserve. And by flexible I mean it needs to adapt over time to re-allocate the startup equity so that the distribution stays fair until the fledgling company takes flight. check out Mike Moyer’s book slicing pie it talks about 50/50 share and how to divide it through his grunt calculator. http://www.slicingpie.com
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Thu, 04 Oct 2012 07:58:07 +0000http://pandodaily.com/?p=14089#comment-33426We need a simple model to help us properly slice the pie. It needs to be flexible and fair. By fair I mean it needs to give each founder what they deserve. And by flexible I mean it needs to adapt over time to re-allocate the <a href=”slicingpie.com”>startup equity</a> so that the distribution stays fair until the fledgling company takes flight. check out Mike Moyer’s book slicing pie it talks about 50/50 share and how to divide it through his grunt calculator.
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Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:01:51 +0000http://pandodaily.com/?p=14089#comment-31537 @scobleizer Robert, no wonder people are fond of you! That was such a laughable, ultimately endearing display of braggadacio (sorry, I can’t spell it, don’t know any other word that would be better) and honesty.

WHY would you, or anyone, other than a machine learning appliance that needed a huge unstructured text training data set, follow 10,000 yes, TEN THOUSAND topics? Even the Notorious Few on Quora who followed every user didn’t attempt that. They may be (have been?) bots as well. You are NOT a bot! On the other hand, acknowledging such a ridiculous act, then remedying it by pruning back to 100 topics was certainly a good idea.

Also, you are a dear for acknowledging the lack of quality in some of your answers… although in retrospect, they were superior to a lot that followed. And I laughed at the allusion to your unintentionally server crashing horde of followers! Yes, that was a way to help Quora website development, adapting to spikes in activity! You do indeed have a horde, not “hoarde” of followers. This would not be the internet if someone were not to quibble over a misspelling… and “hoarde” is almost charming: “hoarding one’s horde” crossed my mind ;o)

I’m uncertain what you perceive to be the “highly transactional” Quora audience. Are they big spenders? Or do they initiate lots of search and seek requests? Maybe the term is one of those start-up phrases, like “disruptive” being a good thing, rather than destabilizing in a control systems context.

Anyway, I wish you well. I would tread carefully with location based servicse, in which you also expressed an avid interest. (I recall reading that your brother got a great job awhile back, which is wonderful. He is an attorney, or had a service for attorneys maybe? Doesn’t matter. I thought it was so nice how you were supportive of him in an unintrusive though public way. That is rather uncommon these days!)
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Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:19:19 +0000http://pandodaily.com/?p=14089#comment-22492 @quickstudy I too was really looking for numbers that weren’t just “How much money Quora has raised” I like the site, I’m interested in their growth arc, but I found this article short on numbers.
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Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:18:55 +0000http://pandodaily.com/?p=14089#comment-22473What an excellent post. Thanks for writing it. Really loving what you guys do at Pando. Please keep doing it.
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Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:18:38 +0000http://pandodaily.com/?p=14089#comment-22467The level of food geekery on Quora is amazing to me. It’s pretty text heavy so doesn’t remind me that much of Pinterest. Though people often illustrate their dissertations with pics. :-)
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Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:18:34 +0000http://pandodaily.com/?p=14089#comment-22466>>>”where long-tail bits of curiosity can be met with long-tail flashes of idiosyncratic insight. It’s the best thing about it.”Well-said. Very true. The Atlantic did a fun piece on the guy who wrote a 9,000 word answer about the various knobs in a cockpit: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-story-behind-that-9-000-word-quora-post-on-airplane-cockpits/254489/
And then there was the one revealing how food companies do large-scale removal of hard-boiled eggshells. http://www.quora.com/Cooking/In-the-big-commercial-operations-how-do-they-take-the-egg-shells-off-the-hard-boiled-eggs
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Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:17:58 +0000http://pandodaily.com/?p=14089#comment-22450movie and food? are Pinterest people switching over to Quora now?
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Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:17:31 +0000http://pandodaily.com/?p=14089#comment-22422The problem I have with Quora is the typical “Chicken” and “Egg” problem. People that are experienced in Media Transformation (my field) don’t spend much time in Quora or LinkedIn because they are working hard on solving specific problems and interacting with other developers on IRC! So if I want to get answers on technical questions I have to search on Google or Bing for postings on IRC or other fora.
In Quora I have found interesting threads related to engineering and some good and relevant contributors to those threads but they are rare.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Quora is a good idea (at least people post questions and answers on Quora vs LinkedIn where everybody is mostly just nice to each other in the interest of networking but provide little technical support) but I don’t think that Quora has been able to attract a critical mass of thinkers and doers to make it The Place to be.
Why are so many people afraid of asking questions and providing answers in the technical field?
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